Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Dasyuromorphia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 22-37 : 26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/81F3DFC4-82A7-25A3-910D-3DD5704BC7E2

treatment provided by

Guido

scientific name

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858
status

 

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 112.

Type Locality: Aru Isl.

Vernacular Names: Wallace's Dasyure.

Synonyms: Myoictis pilicauda (Peters and Doria 1881) .

Distribution: Southern New Guinea and Aru Isls ( Indonesia).

Conservation: Unknown, but rare.

Discussion: Usually considered a subspecies of M. melas , but separated as a species by Archer (1982:417), and molecular data suggest that they may have separated several million years ago ( Krajewski et al., 1997 a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Dasyuromorphia

Family

Dasyuridae

Genus

Myoictis

Loc

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Myoictis wallacii

Gray 1858: 112
1858
Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF